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Instagram might attempt to emulate another element of TikTok’s design with a replacement vertical feed for Stories, TechCrunch reports. Navigating with vertical swipes up and down would make stories behave more like Reels, the short-form video feature the company added to raised compete with TikTok.
The vertical stories feed is not currently being tested, Instagram confirmed to TechCrunch, but the code for the change is already in development based on this screenshot developer Alessandro Paluzzi shared. It’s not much to travel on, but it does show Instagram is a minimum of considering the adjustment to its ever-expanding features.
Mimicking Reels (which, in turn, was heavily “inspired” by TikTok) would unify Instagram’s various feeds in some sense. If Stories became a vertical experience, it might not only match Reels, but also the app’s original feature: scrolling the feed. IGTV would still function a touch differently, though; those videos are buried during a vertical grid in profiles but feature horizontal navigation once you begin watching.






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